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" The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one. "

Henry Kissinger

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" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

" You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. "

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" I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes. "

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" Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing. "

" I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private. "

" If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. "

" I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did. "

Henry Kissinger

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